As most people were leaving the Amazon Room late last night, Team PokerStars Pros Barry Greenstein and Daniel Negreanu were chipped up in the $50,000 HORSE, their team-mate Victoria Coren and sponsored player Kiril Gerasimov were nearing the money in the $2,000 event, and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, the winner of the PCA this year, was the big-stack in the $5,000 short handed event.

The latter had to play down to a final table of six, and ElkY was looking good to be a contender. It's a shame to report he narrowly missed out that first WSOP finaP, running A-J into aces to finish 16th.

But this is the World Series and a new tournament is always around the corner. Saturday means the Rio will be filled to bursting with the no-limit hold 'em fanatics: event 49 is an ever-popular $1,500 buy in events. More than 2,700 players will sit wall to wall crammed into both the Amazon and Brasilia rooms, and beyond. Action kicks off at noon.

Once underway, the 198 players who made it through to day two of the $2,000 event will return, minus Vicky Coren who busted just short of the money. Kiril Gerasimov on the other hand, will. He sits with 29,800 chips in the middle of the pack. A cash is already guaranteed. The question remaining is how much.

Then the real heavyweights return for the penultimate day of the HORSE event. It's the prestige event of the summer and one every poker player wants to win. And of the 21 remaining players - three represent Team PokerStars Pros at either ends of the chip leader board. Chad Brown is the official tournament short stack, with 81,000. But Chad is more than capable of a comeback.

Meanwhile the familiar faces of Barry Greenstein and Daniel Negreanu are second and third in chips, respectively.

It offers a potentially mouth watering prospect ahead and tomorrow they will play into the money and then towards the final table.

Play starts in that event at 3pm PST. We wish them all well.